Quotes About Curiosity

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen

old girl's head went through the ceiling as though it were butter.

Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. [...] Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.

introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Un libro, piensas, es una cajita milagrosa: puedes meterlo en el bolsillo de tu abrigo y en él caben, sin embargo, muchas más cosas de las que existen en el mundo.

scrumdiddlyumptious taste, so says the Welly-eating Giant.' 'What do the people of Wellington taste of?' Sophie

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.

But sometimes mysteries are more intriguing than explanations.

I find that just a little hard to believe,' Sophie said. 'I'll bet you is also finding it hard to believe in quogwinkles

Until at last, just as I was finishing my ice cream, she suddenly turned, reached over, picked up my place card and read the name. Then, with that queer sliding motion of the eyes she looked into my face.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

he LOVED THAT SMELL! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!

1 Here Comes Charlie

crodscollop.

quiet, and the shadows are so long and black, and they keep turning into strange

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it is like to be a child between the ages five and ten.

The books transported her into the world and introduced her to amazing people who lived...

My name is Sophie

CHAPTER ONE

Si uno se detenía a curiosear a través del cristal, podía ver las paredes forradas de arriba abajo con libros y, si abría la puerta y entraba, inmediatamente lo envolvía el hedor a cartón viejo y hojas de té que impregna el interior de toda librería de lance de Londres.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Alguna vez nos detenemos a pensar - se preguntó Matilda - dónde van nuestras profesoras cuando terminan de dar sus clases?

I'm wondering what to read next.